The Poems of VirgilLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 424 pages |
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... whole country round . Look at me here ! I am driving my goats feebly on before me ; and here is one , Tityrus , which I can but just drag along . Why , it was here among these thick hazels only just now that she dropped twins , after ...
... whole country round . Look at me here ! I am driving my goats feebly on before me ; and here is one , Tityrus , which I can but just drag along . Why , it was here among these thick hazels only just now that she dropped twins , after ...
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... whole heavens for mankind , that they might know the seasons which the reaper and the stooping plough- man were to have for their own ? I have not yet put my lips to them either , but keep them in store . D. Yes . I have two cups , too ...
... whole heavens for mankind , that they might know the seasons which the reaper and the stooping plough- man were to have for their own ? I have not yet put my lips to them either , but keep them in store . D. Yes . I have two cups , too ...
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... whole forestry - for Phoebus knows no more welcome page than that which bears on its front the name of Varus . Proceed , Pierian maids . Young Chromis and Mnasylos saw old Silenus lying asleep in a cave , his veins swollen , as is his ...
... whole forestry - for Phoebus knows no more welcome page than that which bears on its front the name of Varus . Proceed , Pierian maids . Young Chromis and Mnasylos saw old Silenus lying asleep in a cave , his veins swollen , as is his ...
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... whole world through those strains of thine , alone worthy of Sophocles ' tragic march ? From thee is my beginning , for thee shall be the end . Accept these strains commenced at thy bidding , and suffer this ivy to wind itself round thy ...
... whole world through those strains of thine , alone worthy of Sophocles ' tragic march ? From thee is my beginning , for thee shall be the end . Accept these strains commenced at thy bidding , and suffer this ivy to wind itself round thy ...
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... whole watery contents of a marsh by absorbent sand — especially where , in the treacherous seasons , a river overflows , and covers whole acres with a coat of mud , making the hollow furrows steam again with the reeking moisture ...
... whole watery contents of a marsh by absorbent sand — especially where , in the treacherous seasons , a river overflows , and covers whole acres with a coat of mud , making the hollow furrows steam again with the reeking moisture ...
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